Poles assess their ability to work poorly
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Poles believe that their physical and mental condition will allow them to carry out their work only up to 44 years of age. It is even worse with our assessment of our attractiveness on the labor market: we believe that we will lose it after reaching 41 years, according to the international survey of the French research laboratory Ipsos.
In the midst of a coronavirus pandemic around the world, this research lab asked employees in 28 countries about their approach to work and how they perceive themselves in the context of the labor market. On average 92 percent of people in the countries surveyed said that work is important in their lives. 70 percent believes that in their daily work they do something interesting, and 30 percent that their work is boring.
In more specific questions, Ipsos asked employees about their age rating, which they would be able to do physically and mentally. On average, among 28 countries, employees believe that they will have such abilities up to the age of 60, but the responses in individual countries varied greatly. Canada, Chile, Sweden and the USA – in these countries, respondents believe that they will be able to work the longest of all, as many as 66 years. At the other end is Poland, where employees believe that their physical and mental ability to work will be exhausted at the age of 44. This is by far the worst result among the 28 countries studied.
Malaysians with an indicated age of 48 are next. Poland and Malaysia are the only countries where the poll estimated that they would not be able to work until they were 50 years old.
Ipsos also examined employees' perception of their "employability" – that is, the maximum age at which they think they will be attractive to employers.
And so the average "employability" limit in 28 countries was 49 years. The Dutch and Americans are the longest-kept on the labor market – both nations believe that they will be able to find work until 58 years of age. On the other side are ex aequo Italians, Malaysians and Poles. In these countries respondents replied that they felt "employed" up to 41 years of age.
